Week Four.

In week four I've mainly been getting on with scripting, storyboarding and planning shots for the film. On my schedule, pre-production should be mostly finished this week and production should be starting next week so it was vital to make sure a lot the film was planned and ready to start filming.


Heres an example of my planning so far, this is for the introduction of the program after the title sequence.

Introducing the Character:

 - First Shot, out of nicks window out onto the main road watching the traffic go by. Start with the fx hearing, turn it down when the voice over comes in and edit to the character.

- [Voice over] – ‘In this episode of Extraordinary People we’ll be looking into the life of Marcus Jefferson, a young adult who slowly lost his hearing throughout his early teenage years. What’s so remarkable about Marcus though, is that he did not loose his hearing completely, but instead developed a very rare condition named Synthanesia. What this means is that he still has partial hearing but everything’s distorted in a very strange manor. Throughout the program we’ll be taking you inside the life of Marcus and presenting to you what it’s like to hear and live with Synthanesia.’

 - When talking about loosing his hearing, use a quite buzz in the background which gets louder and louder till it cuts off the speech all together and in effect, kills his hearing.

 - [Voice over] – ‘While Marcus was growing up he developed a ringing in his ears which persisted and didn’t go away. After complaining about it his parents took him to the doctor who diagnosed Marcus with Tinnitus. This is a symptom which develops from something that’s wrong with your auditory system, this may be from somewhere in your ear, the connecting nerve or your brain. But the problem was it didn’t stop, it only carried on getting louder and louder until one day… [Buzz takes over the voice over] … Everything Changed.

[Intertwine Interview One Here.]

- [Voice Over] – ‘We’ll be using this little hi tech device inside Marcus’ ear [Shot showing Marcus inserting the device] to show you what it’s like to hear with Synthanesia.’ …….. ‘As you can now hear, everything is as if it has a very strange filter on it, distorting and manipulating the sounds.’

I still need to include the camera shots I have planned and the shots I want to use but this is just a basic outline of the voice over script and detail that will be used to open the show and explain to the viewer what the program will be about.

Within the research I have been doing, Alan Rosenthal stated in 'Writing, Directing and Producing Documentary Film and Videos' that 'in shooting you ain for one thing, maximum naturalism: your key objective is to get people to behave in the most genuine way in front of the camera' (1996, p.154). As I'll be the main actor for this piece, I will have to make sure at all times that I am composed infront of the camera to really give the film it's natural feel, which will be vital to how good the finished product will look.

 

 

I have also planned some club shots for next week. I have got a gig in the main room of basement 45 and so I want to use this to my advantage and make the most out of it. I have been given permission and got a cameraman to film. I am mainly worried about the lighting for these shots due to the club being pretty dark apart from the lighting in the DJ booth, hopefully this won't be to much of an issue and can be used effectively.